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Northeast India’s first digital library with around 15,000 e-books and journals was opened here Friday. “The digital library project is the brainchild of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. This library will make available rare and copyright-free books online,” said, Kishore Ambuly, secretary, Tripura higher education department.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) of the union ministry of communication and information technology helped in setting up the library, Ambuly added. The library will operate from the Birchandra State Central Library, the oldest library in the region which was set up in 1896 in the Tripura capital Agartala.
Books will soon be a thing of the past
“Birchandra library has a huge collection of books, journals, manuscripts and annual reports on all subjects,” added, Subi Kumar Debbarma, head librarian. The books and journals would be digitised so that they are accessible online via a searchable online database, he added.
Besides English, rare books in Bengali and tribal language Kokborok will also be available in the digital library. Ambuly said the initiative was aimed at creating a portal of heritage books and manuscripts of India. Kolkata based C-DAC has been involved in the book digitisation process at Birchandra State Central Library since June 2011.
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